1. Introduction
The Boys App, LLC ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information in connection with The Boys mobile application (the "App"), our website at theboysapp.com (the "Website"), and related services (collectively, the "Services").
This Privacy Policy is intended to provide the disclosures required for users of the Services, including users of the App distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play. Please read this policy carefully. By using the Services, you acknowledge the practices described below.
2. Information We Collect
The information we collect depends on how you use the Services and the features you choose to use. We may collect the following categories of information:
Information You Provide
- Account and profile information, such as your name, email address, telephone number, date of birth or age, profile information, profile photo, and other information you choose to provide.
- Interests and preferences that you select in your profile or use within the App, including interests used to help identify compatible friends, Crews, or activities.
- User-generated content, including messages, group or Crew Chat content, Move information, photos, profile content, and other content you choose to post, send, or share through the App.
- Friend and social information, including friend requests, accepted connections, interactions, and information associated with your use of Find Friends, Crews, and other social features.
- Information you provide when contacting us, reporting another user, requesting support, or otherwise communicating with us.
Location Information
Depending on the permissions you grant and the features you use, the App may collect precise or approximate location information from your device. Location may be used to provide location-based features, including helping you find people, activities, Crews, or Moves in your area and supporting other functionality that depends on your location. You can manage location permissions through your device settings. If you decline location access, some location-based features may not function as intended.
Information Collected Automatically
- Device and technical information, such as device type, operating system, app version, network information, and similar technical information.
- Usage information, such as interactions with the App, features used, and diagnostic or crash information, where collected.
- Identifiers and similar information used by the App or its service providers to operate, secure, analyze, and improve the Services.
- Website information, including browser type, operating system, traffic information, logs, and cookie information when you use the Website.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Website may use first-party and third-party cookies and similar technologies to operate the Website, understand usage, maintain functionality, and improve the user experience. You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect certain Website functionality.
3. How We Use Information
We may use information we collect to:
- Create, maintain, authenticate, and secure your account.
- Provide, operate, personalize, and improve the App and Services.
- Enable social and communication features, including Find Friends, friend requests, messaging, Crew Chats, and Moves.
- Use interests, age-related information, and location information, where permitted, to support matching or discovery features such as Crews and nearby friends or activities.
- Display and deliver content and features you request.
- Send service-related communications and, if you provide permission where required, push notifications.
- Respond to support requests and communications.
- Detect, prevent, investigate, and address fraud, abuse, harassment, security incidents, violations of our rules, and other harmful or unlawful activity.
- Moderate and enforce our policies concerning user-generated content and user conduct.
- Analyze usage and performance and improve the Services.
- Comply with applicable law, legal process, and lawful governmental requests.
- Protect the rights, property, safety, and security of the Company, our users, and others.
- Carry out other purposes disclosed at the time information is collected or with your consent where required.
4. Sharing and Disclosure of Information
We may disclose information in the following circumstances:
- Service providers and contractors that perform services for us, such as hosting, cloud storage, communications, analytics, security, customer support, infrastructure, and other business functions.
- Other users, when you choose to use social features that make information or content visible or available to them. For example, information in your profile, Moves, friend interactions, or group/Crew features may be visible to other users according to the feature's settings.
- Third-party technology providers or SDKs integrated into the Services, to the extent necessary to provide their services. Such providers may process information according to their own privacy practices and our instructions or agreements, as applicable.
- A purchaser, successor, investor, or other party involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar transaction.
- Law enforcement, courts, regulators, or other governmental authorities when required or permitted by law, legal process, or to protect rights, safety, or security.
- Other parties with your consent or at your direction.
We do not sell personal information in exchange for money unless we disclose that practice and obtain any consent or provide any rights required by applicable law. We also do not share information for cross-app or cross-website tracking purposes unless permitted by applicable law and our applicable disclosures and consent mechanisms.
5. Third-Party Services and Artificial Intelligence
The Services may use third-party service providers, software development kits (SDKs), analytics tools, cloud services, communications providers, security services, and other technology providers. These providers may process information on our behalf or as otherwise disclosed to you.
Certain App features may use artificial intelligence or automated services to support functionality, such as generating or assisting with Crew or conversation-related content. When information is processed by a third-party AI provider, the information shared will be limited to what is reasonably necessary for the applicable feature and handled in accordance with applicable agreements, disclosures, and legal requirements.
Because the exact third-party providers and SDKs used by the production version of the App may change, the Company will maintain its App Store and Google Play privacy disclosures to accurately reflect the services actually integrated into the App. Users should consult the current store disclosures and this Privacy Policy for the most current information.
6. User-Generated Content and Social Features
The App is a social platform that allows users to create profiles, find and connect with friends, communicate, create or join Moves, participate in Crew Chats, and share other content. Information or content that you intentionally make available to other users may be viewed, accessed, or retained by those users. Please use care when deciding what information or content to share.
We may review, restrict, remove, or retain content or account information as reasonably necessary to enforce our policies, investigate reports, protect users, address security concerns, comply with law, or operate the Services.
7. Push Notifications
If you grant notification permission, we may send push notifications relating to messages, friend requests, Moves, Crews, account activity, and other Service features. You can change notification permissions through your device settings. Disabling notifications may limit certain real-time functionality but does not necessarily delete your account or other information.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Services, maintain account functionality, fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements and policies, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, comply with legal obligations, and protect our rights and the rights of others.
Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected. When information is no longer reasonably necessary for these purposes, we will delete it, anonymize it, or otherwise dispose of it as appropriate, subject to legal, security, fraud-prevention, backup, and other legitimate retention requirements.
9. Account Deletion and Data Deletion
You may initiate deletion of your account through the account-deletion function provided within the App. Account deletion is intended to remove your account and associated personal information and user-generated content that we are not legally required or otherwise legitimately permitted to retain.
You may also contact us at theboyshac@gmail.com to request account or personal-information deletion. We may require reasonable steps to verify the request and protect your account from unauthorized deletion. We will not require you to complete an unnecessary support process when the in-app deletion function is available.
After an account deletion request, we will delete or de-identify associated information within a reasonable period, subject to information that we are required or permitted to retain for legal compliance, security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, enforcement of our agreements, or other legitimate purposes. Where information must be retained, we will retain it only for the applicable purpose and period.
If you have shared content with other users, we will delete that content from our active systems when it is associated with your deleted account, except where retention is legally required or otherwise permitted. We cannot control copies that other users have independently retained, captured, or otherwise lawfully obtained. Certain information may remain in backups for a limited period before being overwritten or securely deleted.
10. Access, Correction, and Other Privacy Requests
You may contact us at theboyshac@gmail.com to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information, subject to applicable law and reasonable verification requirements. Depending on where you live, you may have additional privacy rights under applicable law. We will process valid requests in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
11. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, misuse, or destruction. However, no method of transmitting or storing information is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
12. Information About Minors
The Services are not intended for individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under 18 through the Services. If we learn that we have collected personal information from an individual under 18, we will take reasonable steps to delete it, subject to applicable law. If you believe a person under 18 has provided information to us, please contact us at theboyshac@gmail.com.
13. Your Choices
- You may update certain account and profile information through the App.
- You may manage device permissions, including location, camera, photos, microphone, and notifications, through your device settings, where applicable.
- You may use the App's account-deletion feature to request deletion of your account and associated data.
- You may contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information, subject to applicable law.
14. International and Cross-Border Processing
Depending on where you are located and where our service providers operate, your information may be processed or stored in countries other than the country in which you reside. Where required by applicable law, we will use appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the Services, our information practices, technology, law, or other circumstances. We will post the updated policy and revise the 'Last modified' date. If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice where required by applicable law.
16. Contact Information
The Boys App, LLC
Privacy Contact: theboyshac@gmail.com
Website: theboysapp.com
17. App Store and Google Play Privacy Disclosures
The Company will maintain the privacy disclosures and data-safety information required by the Apple App Store and Google Play. These store disclosures are separate from this Privacy Policy and may identify categories of information collected, whether information is linked to users or devices, how information is used, whether information is shared, and applicable deletion practices. The Company's store disclosures are intended to be consistent with the actual data practices of the Services and this Privacy Policy.
If a third-party SDK, service, analytics provider, advertising technology, AI provider, or other integration is added or materially changes how information is collected, used, or shared, the Company will review and update this Privacy Policy and applicable store disclosures as required.